Hands-On Mat for Making UG Word Family Words Printable

Building different words have been one of our favorite activities to do. And bugs has such a great ending of “ug”. I thought it would be fun to make some ug word family activities for our bug week!

Hands-on word building mats are a great way to work on different words. These cute fireflies -ug words and letters with a jar are great for working out the different types of ug word family words.

My girls have loved the spelling mats in the Romping & Roaring Sight Words Sets. They make learning words tons of fun.

The Free Making UG Word Family Words Printable is part of the 5 Days of Bug Printables

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The Making UG Word Family Words Printable is a great addition to the bug printables and CVC word family printables on the site.

What are UG Word Family Words?

UG Word Family Words are words that have the ending sound of ug. They can be CVC ug words or CCVC ug words. Each of the words have the same two letter ending making it an ug word family word.

The Making UG Word Family Words Printable is the same as the Making “ai” words. This time you have and word ending of ug that you are working on.

I printed the ug word family cards and ug word family building mat on cardstock to make sturdy. I would recomend laminating them to last longer in a center.

The beginning letters, blends, and digraphs all match up the ug word family cards in the set. All of the letters are on small fireflies. The -ug word cards are on bigger fireflies.

There are 9 CVC ug words and 7 CCVC ug words in the ug word building mat in the set. So all the words end in ug.

Things to use with the Making UG Word Family Words Printable

• printer
• white cardstock
• laminator
• laminating pouches
• sheet protectors
• dry erase markers
• UG Easy Reader Book & Activitites

Ways to use the UG Word Family Building Activity

Setting up an -UG Word Building Language Center

Here is a look at how I set up the activity “ug” word building activity. There is only the one vowel u and the ending g for the set.

I put the word building page in a sheet protectors. I used a dry erase marker for the writing area.

Building UG Word Family Words

As you go through the ug word family cards you will see that they all have the “ug” words you will see the different beginning sounds that I put in.

I tried to get a good mix of the words for kids to use. This makes a fun ug word family language learning center.

You can pull a word from the card list and use the firefly letters to build the word. Then you write the word below.

UG Easy Reader Book and Activities Printable Set

If you are looking for more UG Word Family Activities then you can check out the UG Easy Reader Book and Activities Printables.

It has -ug word charts, -ug word 3 part cards, -ug word writing, -ug word family easy reader book, hands-on building -ug words mat, and most are in color and black and white. Plus there are some other -ug word family worksheets that are easy no-prep for UG words.

A fun set to work on ug word family words. You have the ug word family activities above in color and with a black and white option as well. Plus there is more.

UG Word Family Easy Reader Book Printable

The ug word easy reader book has 8 pages. The book has different ug words for kids to read with matching pictures. You can also use the writing page to write sentences from the book. Plus the word chart matches up with most of the words in the book.

UG Word Family Writing Page Printable

There is a writing page for writing the words you build on the mat. Plus other writing pages as well. You can write pages from the

More UG Word Family Printables in the Set

It also includes a -usg word family coloring page, -ug word writing activity and matching -ug words to pictures activities. A lot of these are no-prep printables to help learn UG word family words.

What you will find in the UG Easy Reader Book and Activities Printable set:

• UG Word Chart in Color and Black & White
• UG Words 3 Part Cards
• UG Word Read Trace & Write Printable Worksheet
• UG Word Family Coloring Pages with Tracing & Writing
• Write the Word
• Is That A Bug Easy Reader Book Printable – Single Print
• Is That A Bug Easy Reader Book Printable – Teacher Print
• Write Sentences from the book
• Write sentence with different UG words
• Write page for Making UG Words
• Firefly UG Flash Cards – Color
• Firefly letters – Color
• Making UG Words Mat – Color
• Firefly UG Flash Cards – Black & White
• Firefly letters – Black & White
• Making -UG Words Mat – Black & White
• 40 pages
• Price: $3

What you will find in the free Making UG Word Family Words Printables:

• 5 pages
• 2 pages of ug word family words on fireflies
• Firefly beginning letters
• Read Build Write Mat with a firefly theme

Click here to go get your copy of the Free Bug Themed Making UG Words Pritnble.

Check out these other CVC printables with UG Words

The CVC Word Family Puzzles Short U has some UG words in the puzzles for kids to build.

CVC Word Family Playdough Mats has a ug playdough mat to make the UG words with playdough.

I Spy CVC Short Vowel Words has some short u CVC words that kids can find and color.

CVC Word Family Coloring Pages: Short U Vowel has a -ug word family coloring page you can use with kids.

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